holman / dotfiles

@holman does dotfiles
http://zachholman.com/2010/08/dotfiles-are-meant-to-be-forked/
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/tmp/dotfile-dot not cleaned up after install #230

Open steveftoth opened 8 years ago

steveftoth commented 8 years ago

the tmp dir that's used during install isn't removed after install, this prevents multiple users on the same machine from installing dotfiles.

holman commented 8 years ago

So I think something else must be happening here; dotfile-dot is (an admittedly poorly-named) file used to output the install log of homebrew dependencies. There shouldn't be anything in the code that prevents things getting installed at all.

jacobwgillespie commented 8 years ago

Might there be a permissions conflict if user 1 installs the dotfiles (and thus owns the tmp file) and then user 2 can't write to it?